The Indian
Council for Historical Research recently made it into the news when the new
chief, Y Sudershan Rao who was appointed by BJP Government openly expressed his
belief in Vedic literature and caste system.
The ICHR is a fund distributing agency under the
HRD Ministry which has a 27 member council whose three year term is coming to
an end shortly. The RSS and its affiliates have already sent their list of
favoured candidates to the Central government. “It is time they(the council)
are replaced with people who help in writing history with Indian perspective,
giving more space to Indian icons,” says the RSS who has recommended candidates
who believes that Ramayana and Mahabharata were real.
It is true that an Indian perspective of looking
at History is lacking, but what we need is not a religious perspective but a
secular, objective perspective of looking at the various Historical and the
possible Pre-historical events of India. If we find historical facts supporting
Hindu mythologies and beliefs, it would be happily accepted but what RSS is
trying to do is ‘Hindu’fying the Indian History. This is not acceptable and
should not be allowed.
History and politics go interrelated, but to
rewrite History using the ephemeral political power has always been associated
with tyranny and hence must not be allowed to take roots in a democracy.
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